Leading like a Futurist

How do you lead in a future filled with complexity and ambiguity? This course teaches you how to see, shape, and share the future for your organization, community, and life.

Introduction

• You are a futurist

1. Leaders as Futurists

• Characteristics of a futurist
• Core principles of futures thinking
• Making futures concrete

2. Seeing the Future

• Understanding how to see futures
• Seeing multiple futures at the same time
• Futures headlines
• Building anticipatory skills
• Building contextual intelligence
• Seeing the future through systems

3. Learning Break

• Learning break

4. Shaping the Future

• Identifying levers of change
• Implications wheel
• Shaping through clarity
• Backcasting

5. Sharing the Future

• Ways to share the future
• Sharing the future from what's here
• Sharing the future through visuals
• Sharing the future through stories

Conclusion

• Obstacles to futures thinking
• Siemens case study
• It starts with us